Abstract

Environmental impacts of traffic are of major concern throughout many European metropolitan areas. Air pollution causes 400 000 deaths per year, making it first environmental cause of premature death in Europe. Among the main sources of air pollution in Europe, there are road traffic, domestic heating, and industrial combustion. The TRAFAIR project brings together 9 partners from two European countries (Italy and Spain) to develop innovative and sustainable services combining air quality, weather conditions, and traffic flows data to produce new information for the benefit of citizens and government decision-makers. The project is started in November 2018 and lasts two years. It is motivated by the huge amount of deaths caused by the air pollution. Nowadays, the situation is particularly critical in some member states of Europe. In February 2017, the European Commission warned five countries, among which Spain and Italy, of continued air pollution breaches. In this context, public administrations and citizens suffer from the lack of comprehensive and fast tools to estimate the level of pollution on an urban scale resulting from varying traffic flow conditions that would allow optimizing control strategies and increase air quality awareness. The goals of the project are twofold: monitoring urban air quality by using sensors in 6 European cities and making urban air quality predictions thanks to simulation models. The project is co-financed by the European Commission under the CEF TELECOM call on Open Data.

Highlights

  • As a step towards improving air quality, in 2013, the European Commission adopted a Clean Air zens suffer from the lack of comprehensive and fast tools to estimate the level of pollution on an urban scale resulting from varying traffic flow conditions that would allow optimizing control strategies and increase air quality awareness

  • The project implements two methods: (1) the use of low cost sensors distributed on the urban area, all over around the city, and calibrated starting from the data of the legal stations for the measurement of pollutants, in order to measure pollution in different urban areas, (2) the use of simulation models to build an urban traffic model based on real-time data, in order to provide the forecast of urban air quality based on weather forecasts and traffic flows

  • This paper describes the first results obtained in the TRAFAIR project in almost one year of work

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

As a step towards improving air quality, in 2013, the European Commission adopted a Clean Air. The TRAFAIR project aims to compensate for this lack by providing a framework for traffic monitoring, real-time urban air quality control and pollution forecasting at 24 or 48 hours. The TRAFAIR project aims to estimate the level of pollution on an urban scale by producing the following main results:. The main models implemented in the project are the traffic model and the air pollution dispersion models that are implemented in each city.

THE PROJECT
Output
Urban sensor network within the cities
SOFTWARE AND HPC ARCHITECTURES
TRAFFIC MODEL
AIR QUALITY MODEL
CONCLUSION
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